by Lovely Nature, which appears in “Uma Musume Pretty Derby,” is a character who calls himself “common people” and gives a modest impression to the player, but that is one of the reasons why he is loved.
Lovely Nature, a racehorse that became a motif, participated in 41 races during his active career. Although it was beyond the reach of GI domination, it was a star horse that was more memorable than the battle history, which made the horse racing world living in the 1990s.
He fought hard in any race.
Born in 1988, when Nice Nature was active, the game “Davis” or “Derby Stallion” was released in 1991 as the Famicom version, and in 1994 as the Super Nintendo version of Davis II, in a horse racing boom that spreads to children.
It was also the “era when betting tickets were the best selling in Japan,” and Nice Nature was a racehorse to watch as a “common people” star of this era. And now, after a long time, Nice Nature is loved again by Uma Musume. At the age of 33, he has a long life as a horse, and the news of collecting donations to support retired horses is fresh in his memory.
Speaking of the familiar people’s Nice Nature, it is a horse that is synonymous with bronze collectors, as it recorded “Arima Kinen 3rd place for three consecutive years” from 1991 to 1993. At the end of the year, when he was six years old (old horse age, all horse ages below are the old horse age notation at that time), he had a career of 3rd place for three consecutive years in Arima. 6-4-8-5], and within 3rd place accounted for 18 times. No horse is as gentle as this for the famous double-winning fans. I will fight hard in any race. It was such a horse.
Lovely Nature was called “Good Fighter Man” and “Jiri Leg” even in the sense of temperature at that time of the author, but it resulted in the highest peak G1, etc., and Nice Nature was never talked about as a weak horse. I think it was. The fans’ thousand paper cranes given to the stables were also horses that tickled the desire to support them.
Arima: In 1994, the year after I achieved 3rd place for three consecutive years, when I went to my friend’s house for the first time to play against Derby Stallion’s Breeders’ Cup, it was “Nice” that was stretched on the wall. Nature’s win “. At that time, Nice Nature had been in 2nd or 3rd place since the 1991 Naruo Kinen, and of course, all of them were lost betting tickets. When I think about it now, I realized how much I was loved.
Matsunaga jockey’s famous lines at the Takamatsunomiya Cup
Such Nice Nature won the Takamatsunomiya Cup (2000m G2 race at that time) at Chukyo Racecourse in July of the same year for the first time in about two years and seven months. Jockey Masahiro Matsunaga, who was riding in almost all races except one race, also left a comment saying, “I was relieved to think of the fans who supported me even if I lost or lost,” a fan who loves this horse.
This Takamatsunomiya Cup in 1994 was the last victory of Nice Nature. After that, he continued to run for two years, and after a total of 41 careers, Nice Nature’s lifetime prize money was 619.18 million yen. The prize money he had accumulated steadily increased to more than he could win the G1.
Even after retiring, Nice Nature was a “common idol.” It can be symbolized that the comprehensive betting ticket was appointed as a campaign character in 1999 when it was released. The poster with Nice Nature holding a piece of paper with the words “Wide” in her mouth expresses the condition of a comprehensive betting ticket that “you can hit a horse within 3rd place” in just one scene.
Any horse racing fan will know if Nice Nature appears from an inadequate explanation. Lovely Nature was an ally of the popular betting ticket even when he retired.
Meaning of the trophy given at Kokura Kinen
By the way, Nice Nature, a horse girl, is also a popular idol. A scene where you play against Tokai Teio in the Wakakoma Stakes and feel the wall with the top appears in the game and the animation, but the next target race is Kokura Kinen.
In historical fact, he could not challenge the classic in 1991 due to periostitis. After finishing second in the conditional battle between the same generation in Chukyo, he challenged the dependent action with Kokura in Kokura and won two consecutive victories, then Kokura Kinen. By winning, he entered the open with three successive victories, leading to the Kikuka-sho race of the same year. “In time for the Kikuka Award.”
In the second episode of the second season of the anime, Team Canopus said, “What do you think if I wanted to win the Kikuka-sho?” Lovely Nature tells the trainer, “I will win this and win the Kokura Kinen. Will I be able to get out?”
There is a scene where Nice Nature receives an origami trophy from a trainer after Kokura Kinen is a game supported by the people of Kokura’s shopping district, but this is a metaphorical expression of that “thousand origami crane.” The origami trophy emphasizes the friendliness of Nice Nature, and the details cross the historical facts.
She won the Chunichi Shimbun Cup.
Also, about the Chunichi Shimbun Cup, which runs just before Arima Kinen at the end of the scenario. The historical Nice Nature has never run in the Chunichi Shimbun Cup. However, when expressing Nice Nature as a horse girl in the game, I think it is actually quite essential to make this Chunichi Shimbun Cup the first place.
First of all, at the age of four, Nice Nature won the Naruo Kinen in December, which was held two weeks before the Arima Kinen, with the most popularity. Since 2012, the Naruo Kinen has been born from December to June and cannot be reproduced on the current schedule. And remember. The Takamatsunomiya Cup, which won for the first time in about two years and seven months, is from Chukyo. And now, the Takamatsunomiya Kinen has been promoted to G1 as a memorial to Takamatsunomiya Kinen, and the distance has changed from 2000m to 1200m.
In other words, this Chunichi Shimbun Cup 1st place condition was a race that could express “Naruo Kinen in December” and “Takamatsunomiya Kinen of 2000m in Chukyo, which won for the first time in about two years and seven months”. It can be said that this was the best way to express the historical facts of Nice Nature in the training scenario limited to 3 years, with the schedule, distance, and grade changing between the present and the time.
Nice Nature, who won the Chunichi Shimbun Cup in the game, bites the victory with “It was a long time.” It is a scene that expresses the feelings at the Takamatsunomiya Cup. Jockey Matsunaga commented, “I was relieved to think of the fans who supported me whether I lost or lost.”
At the end of the scenario, Arima Kinen’s victory-in historical fact is the trainer “you” who will win the long-sought race for Nice Nature, who has been running for five consecutive years.
